Arab Film and Video Manifestos

Forty-Five Years of the Moving Image Amid Revolution

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by Kay Dickinson

Type

Studies

Subject

Countries > Middle East

Keywords

Middle East, revolutionary

Publishing date

2018

Publisher

Palgrave MacMillan

Collection

Palgrave Studies in Arab Cinema

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 163 pages
6 x 8 ¼ inches (15 x 21 cm)

ISBN

978-3-319-99800-8

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Book Presentation:
Arab Film and Video Manifestos presents, in their entirety, five key documents that have fundamentally shaken up and helped change the face of image culture in the Middle East and beyond. The book collects together, for the first time, these influential, collectively written calls and directives that span a fifty-year period and hail from a range of different countries. Each urges a radical rethinking of film and video’s role in culture, its relation to politics, and its potential to instigate profound change. Kay Dickinson carefully positions the manifestos within their broader socio-historical contexts and provides supplementary reading and viewing suggestions for readers who cannot access Arabic-language sources.

About the Author:
Kay Dickinson is Professor of Film Studies at Concordia University, Canada. She is author of Arab Cinema Travels: Transnational Syria, Palestine, Dubai and Beyond (2016), as well as numerous articles on Arab film culture within such journals as Camera Obscura, Screen, Cinema Journal, and Framework. She co-edited The Arab Avant-Garde: Music, Politics, Modernity (2013), and co-wrote Film Studies: A Global Introduction (2016).

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